Patents Examined by W. Patty Chen
  • Patent number: 7315344
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes forming a gate electrode, a gate bus line, and a gate pad on a substrate using a first mask process, forming a gate insulating layer and an active layer on an entire surface of the substrate, forming a first organic material film on an entire surface of the substrate, removing a portion of the first organic material film to expose a first portion of the gate pad, depositing a transparent film on an entire surface of the substrate, patterning the transparent film using a second half-tone mask to form a data bus line, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a pixel electrode, a channel layer, and an ohmic contact layer, exposing portions of the data pad and data bus line using a third mask, forming a second organic material film on an entire surface of the substrate, depositing a low resistance material on the data bus line, coating a passivation film on the substrate, removing the second organic material film using a lift-off process to expose a s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byoung Ho Lim
  • Patent number: 7304713
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with marks for checking cutting precision by visual inspection is provided. A checkerboard mark is formed on an intersection of two adjacent cutting lines of the LCD panel. The checkerboard mark includes a pair of first-square marks in a diagonal relationship and a pair of second-square marks in a diagonal relationship. When completing cutting of the LCD panel, the cutting precision of the LCD panel can be checked by visually inspecting the distance between the square mark and the cutting line or the residue of the checkerboard mark. The checkerboard mark is suitable for various LCD panels' arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Quanta Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hung Meng Yi
  • Patent number: 7301591
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has first and second liquid crystal panels (101, 102) mainly comprising liquid crystal cells (107, 108), respectively, disposed back to back to enable the visual recognition of the liquid crystal panels (101, 102). A light guide plate (112) is disposed between the first liquid crystal panel (101) and the second liquid crystal panel (102) with a light source (114) located adjacent to its one end face (112c), and a polarization separator (110) located between the first liquid crystal panel (101) and the light guide plate (112). Light emitted from the light guide plate (112) is split into two beams of polarized light: one is emitted to the first liquid crystal panel (101), and the other to the second liquid crystal panel (102) through the light guide plate (112). This constitution thins down a both-sided display liquid crystal display device and reduces power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 7298435
    Abstract: A color filter 40 has a light-transmissive substrate 2, a reflecting layer 3 formed on the back substrate 2 and provided with openings 4, boundary layers 5 and 21 formed on the reflecting layer 3, and a plurality of coloring layers 6 enclosed by the boundary layers 5 and 21. A transparent coat layer 25 is provided between the reflecting layer 3 and the boundary layers 5 and 21. A step is formed between the openings 4 and the transparent coat layer 25. The coloring layers 6 are formed by applying the droplets 150 of colored fluid to the openings 4 first, and then to the transparent coat layer 25. The difference in color saturation of the color filter 40 in a reflective display mode and a transmissive display mode is reduced. Also, a liquid material is appropriately applied to the color filter 40, to enhance color balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Katagami, Toshihiro Ushiyama, Hisashi Aruga
  • Patent number: 7289180
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a fabricating method thereof for improving an aperture ratio. The liquid crystal display panel of a horizontal electric field applying type including: a gate line formed on a substrate; a data line crossing the gate line, with a gate insulating film positioned therebetween, the crossing of the data line and gate line defining a pixel region; a thin film transistor including a source electrode and a drain electrode formed at the crossing of the gate and data lines; a passivation film for protecting the thin film transistor; a common line overlapped with and insulated from at least one of the gate line and the data line; a common electrode connected to the common line and formed in the pixel region; and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode, wherein a horizontal electric field is formed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Hyun Kim, Yong Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 7277148
    Abstract: A gate line is formed on a substrate, and a gate insulating layer is formed thereon. A data line is formed on the gate insulating layer, and a passivation layer is formed on the data line. The passivation layer has an opening exposing the gate insulating layer. A pixel electrode is formed on the passivation layer and it overlaps the data line and the passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Seong-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 7277152
    Abstract: A TFT and a passivation film are formed on a transparent substrate and thereafter the passivation film is annealed. When measuring drain currents of a TFT at a fixed turn-on voltage (Von) and a fixed turn-off voltage (Voff), although performance of a TFT annealed (solid line) rarely changes, performance of a TFT not annealed (dashed line) changes to a large extent, in more detail, drain current drastically decreases in accordance with the change of TFT performance. This phenomenon means that on-resistance of a TFT not annealed is being increased to a great extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignees: NEC Corporation, NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Yuichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7271871
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel with reduced flicker comprises an active matrix substrate equipped with a plurality of thin film transistors. The active matrix substrate has an active area that is formed with a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines crossing each other. The active area includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. There are outer-lead bonding areas around the active area. There are a plurality of pad areas within the outer-lead bonding areas. A plurality of second wires arranged in a fan-out configuration extend from the pad areas and stretch toward the active area. The second wires are connected to their respective first signal lines by their serpentine or zigzag routes resulting in various wire lengths. A frame-like lead overlaps the second wires, and a capacitor exists between each of the second wires and the closed frame-like lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hannstar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Tean-Sen Jen, Peter Liao, Ming-Tien Lin
  • Patent number: 7268841
    Abstract: A display device 100 has a display unit 110 and a display switching unit 120. The display switching unit 120 is provided with a reflective polarizing plate 121, a liquid crystal panel 122, and a polarizing plate 123 arranged in this order from the side of the display unit 110 to the observation side. By controlling the liquid crystal panel 122, the display switching unit can be switched between a light transmissive state and a light reflective state. The display unit 110 and the display switching unit 120 are optically adhered to each other by an adhesive layer 131. Thus, deterioration of the contrast by boundary reflection can be restrained, and the flatness and the rigidity of the device can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Kasajima, Toshihiko Tsuchihashi, Saori Eisaki, Takeyoshi Ushiki, Hiroshi Wada, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 7268839
    Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device including a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate, a first insulating layer on the gate electrode, an active layer on the first insulating layer and corresponding to the gate electrode, a source electrode over the active layer and overlapping an edge of the active layer, a drain electrode over the active layer and having an island shape, wherein the drain electrode entirely overlaps the gate electrode, a second insulating layer on the source and drain electrodes, and including a drain contact hole exposing the drain electrode, and a pixel electrode over the second insulating layer and connected to the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So-Haeng Cho, Dong-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 7265809
    Abstract: A flat panel display having a black mask EMI layer isolated from Vcom and tied to zero potential. The flat panel display has an integral metal heater layer and thermal sensor that are in close proximity to the liquid crystals to provide efficient heating and temperature sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Universal Avionics Systems Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Dunn, Keuk-Sang Kwon, Hyoung-Yol Park, In-Byeong Kang
  • Patent number: 7256862
    Abstract: A repairing method of a liquid crystal display panel having a gravity defect includes steps of removing the sealant outside the liquid crystal injection hole and providing a first pressure to the liquid crystal display panel. Next, a second pressure is continuously provided to the liquid crystal display panel, and the sealant in the liquid crystal injection hole is removed. Then, a third pressure is continuously provided to the liquid crystal display panel for pressing the liquid crystal out through the injection hole, and the flowed liquid crystal is cleaned out. After that, the liquid crystal injection hole is sealed with a fresh sealant and a fourth pressure is continuously provided to the liquid crystal display panel. Finally, the fresh sealant is cured and the fourth pressure is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Ming Chen, Kei-Hsiung Yang
  • Patent number: 7250998
    Abstract: A color filter layer includes a first region and a second region, wherein the number of times that light used for display is transmitted through the color filter layer is different between the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yozo Narutaki, Masumi Kubo, Shogo Fujioka, Takayuki Shimada, Mikio Katayama, Youji Yoshimura, Yutaka Ishii
  • Patent number: 7248319
    Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display (MVA LCD) panel has a bottom substrate, a top substrate parallel to the bottom substrate, and a liquid crystal molecule layer filled in between. The panel further has a plurality of pixel regions arranged in arrays on the bottom substrate, a plurality of common lines traversing the pixel regions, a plurality of pixel electrodes positioned in each pixel region above the common lines, a plurality of slits positioned on each pixel electrode, a common electrode layer positioned on the surface of the top substrate, and a plurality of protrusions arranged parallel to and alternatively with the slits and positioned on the surface of the common electrode layer. The protrusions and the common lines are partially overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng-Chi Liu, Chung-Ge Lin, Kuang-Shyang Lin, Fu-Yuan Shiau
  • Patent number: 7245340
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device is composed of at least one optical retardation compensator plate 2 (and 3) inserted between a liquid crystal display element 1 and polarizer plates 4 and 5. The liquid crystal display element 1 is composed of a pair of electrode substrates 6 and 7 and a liquid crystal layer 8 sealed therebetween. The polarizer plates 4 and 5 flank the liquid crystal display element 1. The optical retardation compensator plate 2 (and 3) has a negative refractive index anisotropy (na=nc>nb). The direction of a principal refractive index nb parallel to the normal to the surface and the direction of either a principal refractive index na or nc in the surface incline either clockwise or counterclockwise around the direction of the principal refractive index nc or na in the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motohiro Yamahara
  • Patent number: 7233381
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. An array structure of active device includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of active devices and a plurality of pixel electrodes thereon. Each of the pixel electrodes has several fine slits, and there is an angle included by the direction of electric field that crosses over the fine slit and the rubbing direction of liquid crystal layer. When applying voltage on the pixel electrodes, the liquid crystal molecules are to be twisted and transited from splay state into bend state rapidly. After that, the spreading elastic force between liquid crystal molecules could shorten the time of transition of the liquid crystal molecules in all pixel regions. Therefore, the optically self-compensated birefringence liquid crystal display can be warmed up faster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Ting-Jui Chang
  • Patent number: 7224425
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel assembly is manufactured and a printed circuit film such as a tape carrier package (TCP) is bonded on the panel assembly. The bonding of the printed circuit film on the panel assembly is inspected using a differential camera, a different scope, etc. A printed circuit board (PCB) is bonded to the printed circuit film and the bonding of the printed circuit film on the panel assembly is inspected again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-Kwang Yu
  • Patent number: 7221425
    Abstract: A substrate for a display device has a reduced size and weight. Connecting lines are formed on peripheral region adjacent to display region of a display device, and scan driving signal is applied to scan lines through the connecting lines. The connecting lines includes first connecting lines and second connecting lines. The first connecting lines are formed in a same layer as the scan lines, and the second connecting lines are formed in a same layer as the data lines. The total area of the wirings formed in the peripheral region is reduced, and the size and weight of the liquid crystal display device may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Bae Jung, Won-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 7215397
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer placed between the pair of substrates and an alignment film placed on the side of at least one of the pair of substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer has a first region in which the pretilt direction of liquid crystal molecules of which the alignment is regulated with alignment regulating force of a surface of the alignment film is a first direction and a second region in which the pretilt direction is a second direction different from the first direction. Display is performed using bend alignment of the first region of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Tatsuo Uchida
  • Patent number: 7202927
    Abstract: On a TFT array substrate, an electrooptic device contains pixel electrodes disposed in an image display region, TFTs which are disposed in a peripheral region at the periphery of the image display region and which form a peripheral circuit, and a protective film formed so as to cover at least a part of the peripheral region. The protective film is not provided in at least a part of an opening region of each pixel formed in the image display region. Accordingly, in the electrooptic device, such as a liquid crystal device, while the device life is increased by protecting electronic elements, such as transistors formed on the substrate by the protective film, degradation of display image quality caused by the presence of the protective film is reduced or prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Murade